Mills Scofield

AUGUST 27, 2012

by Chia Han Sheng on Sunday, August 19, 2012. Among this group has been a founder of a wildlife foundation, a married Wall Street duo, a management consultant, his digital artist wife, and an urban planner. Thoughts on Charity, Foreign Aid and Market Incentives - Tanzania.

Incentives 171

Incentives Marketing Microfinance Entrepreneur 171

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

This is where the July 2012 memorandum of understanding between Greece and the Troika (the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, and the European Commission) failed miserably; the previous government, much like Syriza, wanted to preserve the status quo. It isn’t only the branded pundits who are neglecting these issues.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Ask someone to name the demands that activist hedge funds make of companies and they’ll likely list corporate governance issues like board changes and executive compensation, or perhaps some form of restructuring. Paul Garbett for HBR. Done well, it can improve a company’s sustainability in addition to its performance.

Proposal 8

Proposal Short-term Advertising Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

A future compensation action would reduce 2012 variable benefits (bonus or equity awards) in absolute terms (or through a much slower rate of increase). Holding people to account for these and related issues is an essential element of a broad approach to risk management inside financial services (and industrial) firms.

CIO 8

CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

million in 2012, with the proportion of these totals derived from gains from stock-based compensation ranging from 37% in 2006 to 77% in 2010. Wall Street investment banks and hedge fund activists, some of whom began targeting McDonald’s a decade ago , also gain from the temporary boosts that buybacks produce. .”

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

For RIM, is it the small base of application developers, or the lack of a handful of key applications? Is it Apple's consumer appeal, or the declining influence of corporate IT managers? These moves require limited investment while providing critical hedges against unexpected changes in the marketplace.

Strategy 15

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

But that will not in any way deter hedge-fund activists from demanding that companies do stock buybacks so that they can time their stock sales to take advantage of short-term, buyback-induced, stock-price boosts. It has spent almost $90 billion on buybacks and almost $33 billion on dividends from 2012 through the third quarter of 2015.

Proposal 8

Proposal Hedge Safe Harbor Short-term 8